From a Facebook post from – Feb 2 2021 in our “The Way of Your Inner Voice” group, this was written during the very first go of “The Artist’s Way”. I think I’ve been here before, but I always panic and re-lock the door. This time I am not running away. I’m still trying to break free, still pushing on that door, battling all the blocks. Here’s what I wrote on the post – I’m remembering now that writing them is easy the work is the sharing. Because at the end of the day that’s what this is all about, being actually seen and heard. What are you holding in that needs to get expressed? Perhaps your Inner Voice is calling to you as well?
Come out and Play – one shot poem written Feb 2021
There is a knocking
Inside my head
At first just a rapping
A gentle tapping
grows more insistent
Each passing day
a sense of wonder
trapped inside a box
Buried under fears
wrapped in layers of shame
it grows louder though
more insistent, consistent
let me out to play
becoming a banging
begging for attention
a chance to spread
its wings
I try to keep it closed
It’s very wild and
Unpredictable
It always wants to play
It isn’t very grown-up
And others say it’s wrong
But if this racket keeps up
My wall, my resolve
may not stay as strong
I wonder what will happen
Alexander Milov’s sculpture, Love, appeared in the 2015 Burning Man festival and is so much an image that makes me think of our Inner Voice work and this ongoing struggle to know and let the real and best me out to live, love, work, and most importantly….PLAY!
